The meeting they held with the state governor a few weeks ago the peasant leaders who took over toll booths to demand a best price for corn, was to give a vote of confidence to the government and impose dialogue to reach satisfactory solutions on that thorny issue; but after yesterday it became official that it was detained by elements of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic in the city of Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, the leader of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa, Baltazar Valdez Armentía, It leaves a bad taste in the mouth among that sector, since the little trust they had in the authorities collapsed with that action.
On social networks it spread like wildfire, not only the detention of the aforementioned peasant leaderbut also that of many farmers who are very upset with the state and federal government, because instead of complying with the agreements made at the meeting in Culiacán, they are issuing arrest warrants against figures of this movement, although it is clarified that the The arrest was not due to the seizure of toll booths this year, but rather due to the blockade against the Pemex plant in Topolobampo that occurred in 2023.
Valdez Armentía’s colleagues assure that they are already looking for the governor Ruben Rocha Moya to attend to them and give them an explanation of why they proceeded that way if there was a truce between both parties, but perhaps the announcement made this week by the leader of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa, that they were going to retake the toll booths on May 25 after seeing no progress in the commitments they made With them, the state leader was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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